Bradbury, Pablo (2021) Marxism in the Emergence and Fragmentation of Liberationist Christianity in Argentina. Journal of Latin American Studies, 53 (2). pp. 323-348. ISSN 0022-216X (Print), 1469-767X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X20001248)

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Abstract

Studies of liberationist Christianity in Argentina have largely explained its emergence with reference to changes or continuities within the Catholic Church. This article instead analyses firstly how Marxist humanism, dependency theory and left nationalism shaped a rapprochement with Christianity in the 1960s, with Peronism often functioning as an intermediary. Moreover, it demonstrates the ways in which the ongoing ambivalent relationship between Marxism and the liberationist Christian movement in Argentina manifested in the fragmentation of the Movimiento de Sacerdotes para el Tercer Mundo (Movement of Priests for the Third World) in the first half of the 1970s. In doing so, it identifies Marxism not as merely a passive repository of ideas but as an active agent in liberationist Christianity's development, and adds a new layer of understanding of the dynamics and fragmentation of the movement.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Marxism, humanism, liberation theology, Argentina, Christianity, Movement of Priests for the Third World, marxismo, humanismo, teología de la liberación, Argentina, cristianismo, Movimiento de Sacerdotes para el Tercer Mundo, marxismo, humanismo, teologia da libertação, Argentina, cristanismo, Movimento dos Sacerdotes para o Terceiro Mundo
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HX Socialism. Communism. Anarchism
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS)
Last Modified:	21 Apr 2023 10:59
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/41662

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